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Linux
Linux (start here, current status)
Update Nov 19 2007 - Upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 with dual displays working. I've now also deleted my Windows XP partition!!!
Update- switched to Linux!!! running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS with dual displays!!!
Despite my first failed attempt to completely switch to Linux with Ubuntu, I'm back and ready to try again!!! With a whole bunch of command line/terminal experience (working with Ubuntu Server Edition), I think I can finally get Linux to do what I want :)
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) Clean Install
clean install*****************************
This time I've just noticed that I've had a few too many failed-installs and some programs just act a little too bugy... so I'm going to take this chance to clean house!
I'll also be upgrading to 7.04 over 6.06 that I've been using for awhile successfully now. I would go up to 7.10 but I'm not happy with the dual display setup in 7.10, and my xorg.conf file will still work in 7.04.
Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) Clean Install
clean install*****************************
I've just messed up grub, so I'm going to take this chance to clean house!
NOTE: I have three partitions on my computer: one for /, one for /home(do not format this!!!) and one for swap. This is a great "default" setup, you may want or need more partitions, go nuts.
First back up the following, if not more...
-mysql (localhost, back up each table individually...)
-fonts (any you may have added)
-xorg.conf file (if you have a customized setup, which I do)
pop in your live cd and boot up...
- install 6.06 (do not format the /home dir)
Ubuntu: Dual Monitors....Feisty and Gutsy!!!
OKAY, I've got dual displays working on my dell 600m with Mobility Radeon 9000 64mb with Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy (caveat: no video playback regardless of file type, hrrmmmm....)
After deleting my WinXP partition (FREEDOM!) I decided to try Ubuntu 7.10 in that space, and see if I could get dual displays working. And low and behold, I did it. So, I deleted that partition, and dedicated the space on my hard drive to Ubuntu, the current working installation being 6.06 LTS, in dual display glory.
Note: I have a separate partition for my /home directory, and my whole hard drive backed up...
SheepShaver on Ubuntu
NOTE: I'm using files and disk images I had already acquired/created for sheepshaver under windows. You will need a ROM image and a disk image with Os9 already installed for these instructions to work.
get necassary files/libraries
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2
sudo apt-get install alien
download sheepshaver rpm to desktop
cd ~/Desktop
sudo alien -k SheepShaver-2.3-0.20060514.1.i586.rpm
converts rpm with alien to deb
sudo dpkg -i sheepshaver_2.3-0.20060514.1_i386.deb
